Unscientific hearing test: how good is your hearing?

And fucking AWESOME sounds are in the low range. No matter what Geir says.

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As long as I can hear in the mid range, and also hear and feel the kind of bass that makes tendon not so affectionate toward bone anymore, I'll be a happy guy.

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huh, i was reading through this thinking i'd done it before, not noticing the posting date.

17k, with the volume up. i feel i can hear the tiniest bit of not-silence in 18k, but... no.

weird. i answered "16" a year back, but i can now hear something in nearly all of these. only 22 sounds like dead silence. past 15, though, they're all just pitched hissing at the edge of audition, so maybe i'm hearing some kind of interference and not the actual test tone. hard to tell.

10

15

17

15k--earwax and infections, not loud music.

~14-15, did lots of damage in my 20s

high frequencies are for losers anyway, voices/normal sounds occur in the midrange tbh

I did this again with my very good headphones and... well, after 12khz I can still hear something but its like a very soft distant hiss? That cantbe the actual frequency tho cos in that case I can hear all of them and that cant be right.

I have an actual hole in one eardrum so its very unlikely my hearing's that good tbh.

10. Not surprised. I continue to morph into my father.

21K. Tone sounds lower than the 16-18k ones. the click of the sound file playing I can hear for all of them.

Ive spent the last decade obsessing over having earplugs in at every show ever, or if not, wet toilet paper.

19K

14K wtf?

I'm saying 20K, the last two seem silent to me.

I tried the 8K one, damn near deafened me!

15 through ipod headphones. interested to try with other better headphones/speakers although tiny earphone speakers shouldn't have a problem with high freqs, right?

also ;_;

15k and i had to crank it. 16k there is absolutely nothing

my constant ambient hum is at about 14k, i now know *thumbs up*

i can still remember the show where i woke up the next morning and knew i had really fucked something up. thanks trans am!

oh god yeah that happened to me a couple of years ago, scared the shit out of me. felt like I was underwater all day :(

I can hear 16, but 17 is nothing.

16, that's okay, half way.

17 and an idea of 18 but i voted 17
this makes me feel kind of better about not keeping my earplugs in for all of acid mothers temple a couple of months ago and having my ears ring for a day and a half afterwards

also if you have cats, play this for them! my cat seemed to want to get inside my speakers or at least attack them at 22kHz

seriously though, Etymotic earplugs 4 lyfe

17, but i turned the volume up to do it

whoohoo, still 18 a year later. dog is really pissed at me right now though

15k in one ear, 17k in the other. Gonna try this again when I am not congested

But I have suspicions it is accurate

17k, my bat senses are fucked

i thought i imagined 2010

You know what the oddest thing is, that certain frequencies seem to have gone, and others haven't?

I can't hear 14k on the scale going up - but at 19k and 21k I can hear again. Or I don't know if hear is the right word, but I can definitely tell, in my right ear, that there is sound. Which is odd, because my right ear is by far the deafer of the two. So I wonder if I've just killed one part of the frequency range worse than others, or if my deafer ear can someone feel sound that I can't technically hear?

I can hear the 15kHz tone clearly. 16 and 17 I had to turn right up to hear a faint noise barely any higher pitched than 15. 18: nothing. RIP my hearing.

I remember talking to a friend who makes techno who said that all his favourite electronic musicians had suddenly gone crap in their 30s and he blamed the loss of high frequencies. Being a few years older than him, I wanted it to be rubbish then and I want it to be even more so now.

I notice a real difference in frequency response if I swap ears when I'm on the phone, but it doesn't seem to make much difference for these. 17 is faintly there in both (a little louder in the right) but 18 is gone in both.

Oh shit! 12 kHz was the highest I could definitely tell I was hearing something.

17kHz. I will start to feel old when I can no longer hearThe Mosquito (17.4 kHz), but I'm afraid it won't be long now.

actually I can barely make out the 18 khz tone, and I can definitely make it out here. I'm really just posting this for my future reference.

shit, I can hear a faint, squealing something all the way up to 22 khz (though 22 might be a bit of a stretch), but it's hard to separate the tone from interference + my imagination + the ringing in my ears from hearing lower tones.

so, 18 for sure, 19-22 inconclusive but damn my ears hurt.

*cochlear nerve melts*

Can't hear 17, 18, 19 & 20 at all (even with volume all the way up), but can hear 21 and 22.
Does that make any sense?

Yes. Hearing loss can occur at specific frequencies, with both higher and lower frequencies intact.

I have so-called 'disco-ears' for sure.
Can't hear a thing people say in a crowded room.
I suppose these are the frequencies that do me in.

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I have problems hearing things people say in crowded rooms, too, but I've always figured that it was auditory processing disorder.

Disco ears!

auditory processing disorder

Different roads may lead to Rome, in this case.
With me it is definitely a matter of damage done during my high volume teenage metal head years.

I can hear up to 20, but I am wearing noise-cancelling earphones, and without them I doubt I could hear past about 16, the last couple were barely audible.

Same for me. Can hear up to 21, gets gradually quieter after 17.

on my headset I could hear up to 21

20 through MBP speakers. Fascinating how 20 is clear and completely noticeable and 21 is nada, not even a hope of straining, pretending to hear.

21 if I put my ear very close to a speaker but no 22 even then

I hear the slightest strain in 21 but it's so small that im going with 20. But hearing those notes feels so uncomfortable,